Isaac schneee



I. SOHNEER.

(Model.)

SHIRT.

Patented Feb. 28,1882..-

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To all whom it may concern:

. UNITED STATES IsAAo SOHNEER, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,387, dated February 28, 1882. Application filed December 31, 1881. (ModeL) Be it known that I, IsAAo ScHNEER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Shirts, of which the following is a full, clear, and ex act description.

My invention consists in certain novel features applicable to dress-shirts and fancy shirts of flannel in part or as a whole, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figurel is a frontelevation of a shirt, of the improved construction. Fig. 2 is a front view of the neck portion with the collar turned inward. Fig. 3 is a similar view with the collar at the outside. Fig. 4 is a face view with the front unlaced to show the construction. Fig. 5 is a section on line a; w, and Fig. 6 a section on line 3 y of Fig. 4.

A is the shirt, of usual construction, except as hereinafter specified. a a are slits formed in the lower part of the shirt-body, front and back, instead of in the sides, as usual. slits extend from the bottom any desired distance upward, and by their position allow the shirt to open or give way sidewise or in the direction most natural and convenient. The shirt may therefore be madelonger and readily kept down to place, and there will be no (langer of the shirt being torn by strain.

The shirt is also made with an open bosom, formed to button by means of inner flaps, b b, attal-hed at the inside, as shown in Figs. 4. and ,6. The outer flaps, 0, formed by the main body of thegarment, are made with eyelets, throngh which a laeing-cord,d, is strung, so that these outer flaps can be drawn up as closely as desi1 ed. This lacing is more relia- These ble and stronger than buttons, and gives an ornamental appearance to the bosom, as is desired on fancy flannel shirts.

The shirt is provided with a collar or neckband, g, of ordinary character, and between the sides of the doubled strip forming the band (see Fig. 5) a collar, 6, is attached, so that the collar, when turned inward, hangs straight below the band,and the band may be used with a separate collar, as usual.

The collar e may also be turned outside, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, for usein place of a separate collar. With dress-shirts this reversible collar avoids the necessity of changing the garment when the collar is slightly soiled, because in that case the fixed collar can be turned in and another put on. With flannel shirts it gives the advantage of a collar of the same material, which, with a lawn-tennis shirt,

can be worn in the field and afterward readily replaced by another when the appearance of ordinary dress is desired.

I do not limit myself to the material of the shirt, as that may be varied according to its intended use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1 1. The collar 6, attached between the sides of a doubled strip forming the band, to enable it to hang inwardly straight below the band or outwardly to serve the purpose of a separate collar, as shown and described.

2. In shirts having open bosoms, the combination of inner flaps, b, outer flaps, 0, having eyelets, and lacing-cord d, substantially as shown and described.

' ISAAC SOHNEER.

Witnesses:

(3120. D. WALKER, 0. SEDeWIoK. 

